From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists at the University of California, ...

Scientists reveal the genetic secret behind the thick lips of African cichlids, linked to parallel evolution and proteins.

The story of how fish, frogs, and humans are entwined is as ... showcase the incredible flexibility of evolution: their ability to live both in water as tadpoles and on land as adults is a ...

Some reef fish ... human point of view, but if you look across all vertebrate species -- half of which are fish -- it is almost unique, said Peter Wainwright, professor in the Department of ...

With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

Most of a kokanee’s diet consists of plankton, which are small, aquatic organisms barely visible to the human eye. Plankton ...

Modern salmon face a hurdle that was unknown to their ancient ancestors: pharmaceutical pollution that changes their ...

Geologist Peter Clift explores the Indus River's 50-million-year history, tracing its formation from the collision of India ...